Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band. Bob Seger wrote and performed it.
brute(Noun) An animal seen as being without human reason; a senseless beast. brute(Noun) Someone with the characteristics of an unthinking animal; a coarse or brutal person. One of them was a hulking brute of a man, heavily tattooed and with a hardened face that practically screamed I just got out of jail..
That the huge, fierce brute loved this child of another race is beyond question, and he, too, gave to the great, hairy beast all the affection that would have belonged to his fair young mother had she lived.